Locked and Unloaded: Assessing Gun Owners’ Storage Practices & Safety Training
Groundwork: Prior research shows that secure firearm storage and gun safety training can help prevent gun violence, injury, and death. However, relatively little is known about American gun owners’ safety training or use of safety precautions.
Research Questions: 1) What safety precautions are owners using with firearms? 2) What individual and macro variables predict safe storage?
Approach: An empirical analysis of survey data collected from a nationally-representative sample of American gun owners (n = 1,085).
Details: Ally Black and Madison Adamiak. (2025). “Locked and Unloaded: An Assessment of Safety Precautions Taken by American Gun Owners.” Extensions of this project were presented at the Annual Meeting for the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators (PACJE, 1st place), Penn State Altoona Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair (URCAF, 2nd place disciplinary), and Penn State Behrend-Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishments Conference (1st Humanities-Social Sciences).
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| Work Title | Locked and Unloaded: Assessing Gun Owners’ Storage Practices & Safety Training |
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| License | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) |
| Work Type | Poster |
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| Publication Date | April 2025 |
| DOI | doi:10.26207/e707-aq27 |
| Deposited | May 06, 2025 |
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